SAS Integrates LSF Job Scheduler from Platform Computing

SAS Institute, a market leader in e-intelligence and data warehousing, announced an agreement with Platform Computing to integrate Platform's LSF Job Scheduler with SAS/Warehouse Administrator software release 2.2.

The integration will add distributed resource management (DRM) to data warehousing, helping to reduce the costs of developing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise applications. The solution makes scheduling, analyzing and monitoring the processing of distributed application workloads possible across the enterprise. Warehouse Administrator 2.2 is being released as part of the SAS System release 8.2, also released this month.

"The new economy demands highly scalable applications with information available on demand, and SAS is demonstrating market leadership in recognizing that their customers need integrated DRM products and services. We are fully committed to supporting SAS with Platform's LSF and SiteAssure suites of software and are pleased to have SAS as a top-tier Platform partner," said Platform's president Phil Weaver.

"With release 8.2 of the SAS system comes an industry leading scheduling package fully integrated into the SAS system," said Jim Davis, SAS vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "Platform Computing is a market leader in DRM, making them an obvious choice for us as a partner. And LSF Suite offers the distinctive complement of automatic load balancing across nodes to the SAS warehousing solution. This makes Warehouse Administrator the most scaleable and flexible warehousing solution on the market today."

In release 8.2 of SAS software, SAS Integration Technologies provides an IT platform founded on industry standards, that extends the value of SAS decision support, e-Intelligence and data warehousing solutions to other systems and programming environments. This reduces the cost of developing, deploying and maintaining enterprise applications and allows the delivery of quality information to the right people at the right time to assist in decision making.

About Platform Computing

Platform Computing Corporation is a world leader in DRM software. Platform's software, LSF Suite and SiteAssure Suite, enables some of the world's most creative companies to maximize the productivity potential of their people, computing resources and processes. Platform's products give both technical and Internet environments control over their mission-critical hardware, software and network resources. With Platform solutions, customers are able to bridge the worlds of networks, systems, and applications and realize higher availability and performance to achieve their business objectives. Founded in 1992, Platform has more than 1,500 customers worldwide and has strategic partnerships with Sun, IBM, HP, SGI and Compaq. For more information, please visit www.platform.com.

About LSF Suite

Platform's LSF Suite is a set of software products that enables distributed computing by providing full access to computing resources through load sharing and dynamic job scheduling within heterogeneous computing environments. LSF maximizes the benefits of distributed computing through DRM features such as scheduling, analyzing and monitoring the processing of distributed application workloads.

About SAS

SAS is a world leader in e-intelligence software and services, enabling its customers to turn raw data - including the vast quantity generated by e-business - into usable knowledge. Software from SAS, one of the world's largest privately held software companies, is used at more than 35,000 business, government and university sites in 110 countries. For more information visit www.sas.com.

Contact SAS Institute Inc, Wally Maczka, 919-531-5350, Wally.Maczka@sas.com or Platform Computing, Catherine Bianco, 905-948-4640, cbianco@platform.com.